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Minor earthquake, 3 mag strikes near Smiths Ferry in Idaho


Earthquake location 44.3568S, -116.1516WA minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has struck on Sunday, 7 kilometers (4 miles) from Smiths Ferry in Idaho. The temblor was detected at 09:45:37 / 9:45 am (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: us6000ni17. Event ids that are associated: us6000ni17. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 5 km (3 miles). Exact time and date of earthquake 04/08/24 / 2024-08-04 09:45:37 / August 4, 2024 @ 9:45 am UTC/GMT. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -116.1516 West, latitude 44.3568 North, depth = 5 km.

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Eagle, Ontario, Payette (min 5000 pop). Epicenter of the event was 75 km (47 miles) from Eagle (c. 19 900 pop), 74 km (46 miles) from Ontario (c. 11 400 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Payette (c. 7 400 pop), 60 km (38 miles) from Emmett (c. 6 600 pop), 66 km (41 miles) from Weiser (c. 5 500 pop). Close country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world. Earthquakes 2.5 to 3.2 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days five earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 7 km NW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 3 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude -116.1516° West Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 44.3568° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 5 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 7 km NW of Smiths Ferry, Idaho Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2024-08-04 09:45:37 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2024-08-04 10:45:59 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 2 The total number of felt reports
CDI 2.7 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 139 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 79 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 0.331 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.81 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 22 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type ml The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000ni17 Id of event.
Event Code 6000ni17 An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000ni17, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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